Stocking.



No @723,361. I v PATBNTED MAR. 24, 190s.v L. 0. CALKINS.

STOCKING.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 23, 1901. RENEWED JAN. 31, 1903.

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\Vitnqsses I Inventor- Attorney.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LILLIAN O. QALKINS, OF GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.

STOCKING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 723,361, dated March24, 1903. Application filed September 23, 1901. Renewed January 31,1903.Serial No. 141,368 (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, LILLIAN O. CALKINS, a citizen of the United States,residing at Grand .Rapids, in the county of Kent and State of Michigan,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Stockings, of whichthe following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in stockings for childrens wear,and more particularly for boys in short pantaloons; and its objects are,first, to-provide a stocking with which the back and front of the legmay be interchanged to avert as far as possible wearing them out toorapidly at the knees, and, second, to avert in like manner wearing outthe feet and heels. I attain these objects by the constructionillustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is anelevation of the stocking as it comes from the machine, and Fig. 2 isthe same as it appears upon the foot and leg of the wearer.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout both views.

A represents the leg of the stocking.

B B represent the feet and heel, forming when not in use a T with theleg.

To prepare the stocking for wear, one of the feet is folded down at theinstep (indicated at b) to the point I) and the toe folded up to thepoint I), forming the reinforced heel B. By this construction the footmay be reversed, forming the heel of one foot one day and of the otherfoot the next, thus bringing the side a of the leg over the knee one dayand the side a. the next dayand greatly increasing the wearing qualitiesof the knees, the foot, and the heel of the stocking and prolonging thelife of the stocking fully one half or more.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-- 1. As anew article of manufacture, a stocking consisting of a leg having twofeet thereon forming a T therewith, substantially as and for the purposesetforth.

2. As a new article of manufacture, a stock ing-leg having two" feetthereon forming a T therewith, the feet arranged to be foldedalternately to reverse the feet and to reinforce the heels,substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

3. As a new article of manufacture, a stock ing having a leg and twofeet forming a T therewith, either of said feet to be folded down, as atb to b, and the toe folded up to b to form the convertible reinforcedheel B, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

Signed at Grand Rapids, Michigan, Septem- 6 ber 21, 1901.

LILLIAN C. OALKINS.

In presence of WM. H. CALKINS, RICHARD W. OALKINs.

